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Exploring the potential of the popular culture and world politics agenda: actors, artefacts and the everyday
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The PCWP agenda has contributed a great deal to the discipline of world politics, empirically, methodologically and theoretically as discussed by the authors. However, there is scope to expand upon certain aspects of...Abstract:
The PCWP agenda has contributed a great deal to the discipline of world politics, empirically, methodologically and theoretically. However, there is scope to expand upon certain aspects of ...read more
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Book Review: Stephen Benedict Dyson, Otherworldly Politics: The International Relations of ‘Star Trek’, ‘Game of Thrones’, and ‘Battlestar Galactica’:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on three of the genredefining science fiction films: Start Trek, Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica, and demonstrate that IR, just like films, is made up of stories, of narratives that make the unfamiliar intelligible.
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Gendered Honor: How Mass Common Sense Shaped India's Foreign Policy in Jammu and Kashmir, 1947–1950
TL;DR: The authors argued that mass common sense sets the limits of legitimacy within societal discourse, thus shaping all political and policy discourses, including foreign policy, including India's decision to militarily intervene in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947.
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The Structuralist Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, structuralist identity does not necessarily mean total acceptance of those traits usually attributed to structuralism (an abstract, inflexible, or a historical manner of viewing meaning), but a concept of meaning that is radically organized, differential, systematic, and critical.
Chilean Women's Resistance in the Arpillera Movement – Centre tricontinental
TL;DR: During the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, many Chilean women created complex tapestries depicting the harsh conditions of life and the pain resulting from the disappeared victims of Pinochet's dictatorship as discussed by the authors.
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The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory
TL;DR: We have all grown accustomed to familiar representations of the international and its conflicts, and we gradually forget that we have become so accustomed to these politically charged and distorting metaphors that we accept them as real as mentioned in this paper.
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International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction
TL;DR: The fifth edition of this textbook introduces students to the main theories in International Relations as discussed by the authors, allowing them to understand and critically engage with the myths and assumptions behind them. But it does not discuss the relationship between these theories and the movies they are based on.
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Captain America's Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post‐9/11 Geopolitics
TL;DR: In this article, comic books are used as a medium through which national identity and geopolitical scripts are narrated, using the example of post-9/11 9/11 Captain America comic books to integrate various strands of theory from political geography and the study of nationalism.
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Aesthetics and World Politics
TL;DR: The authors argue that aesthetic sources can offer alternative insight: a type of reflective understanding that emerges not from applying the analytical skills that are central to the social sciences, but from cultivating a more open-ended level of creativity and sensibility about the political.
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Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture–World Politics Continuum
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and outline how this research agenda could be advanced, which will get us closer to what is at stake in the mutual implication of popular cultures and world politics.
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